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A Fulton County judge just delivered another stinging defeat to the left's favorite partisan prosecutor, Fani Willis.
In a ruling handed down Monday, Judge Scott McAfee barred Willis from inserting herself into the ongoing battle over reimbursing President Donald Trump and his co-defendants for the millions in legal fees they racked up fighting her now-dead racketeering case.
The judge made it crystal clear: since Willis was already "wholly disqualified" from the prosecution thanks to her improper romantic entanglement with lead prosecutor Nathan Wade, she has no business sticking her nose into this reimbursement fight. The defendants are seeking around $16.8 million under a 2025 Georgia state law that allows recovery of fees when prosecutors get booted for misconduct. Trump alone wants more than $6.2 million back from Willis' office.This is a solid win for Trump in his long-running clash with Willis, whom he has repeatedly blasted as a "rabid partisan" running a "witch hunt."
The defendants, charged by Willis with scheming to illegally flip Georgia's 2020 election results, are leaning on that new law to get their money back after the case imploded.
Fulton County could still be on the hook since the cash would come from the county budget, but Willis' team insisted she deserved a seat at the table.
"Without intervention by the District Attorney, any award would violate basic fundamental notions of due process by denying her an opportunity to be heard or even challenge the reasonableness of the claimed attorney fees before it is taken from her budget," her lawyers argued in court filings.
Trump's lead attorney, Steve Sadow, wasted no time calling the ruling spot-on.
"Judge McAfee has properly denied DA Willis' motion to intervene in POTUS' action for reimbursement of attorney fees because her disqualification for improper conduct bars Willis and her office from any further participation in this dismissed, lawfare case," Sadow said in a statement.
Willis launched her massive RICO indictment against Trump and 18 co-defendants back in August 2023, claiming they conspired to mess with the 2020 election. But the case steadily unraveled, plea deals, dropped charges, and suffered its fatal blow in 2024 when the Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Willis over her secret relationship with Wade, creating an obvious conflict of interest.
That kicked the case over to the Georgia Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, whose director, Peter Skandalakis, moved to dismiss everything.
"In my professional judgment, the citizens of Georgia are not served by pursuing this case in full for another five to ten years," Skandalakis said.
McAfee signed off on the dismissal, and with this latest order, Willis is officially sidelined from the cleanup fight too. Another chapter closes on one of the most politicized prosecutions in recent memory.
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The judge made it crystal clear: since Willis was already "wholly disqualified" from the prosecution thanks to her improper romantic entanglement with lead prosecutor Nathan Wade, she has no business sticking her nose into this reimbursement fight. The defendants are seeking around $16.8 million under a 2025 Georgia state law that allows recovery of fees when prosecutors get booted for misconduct. Trump alone wants more than $6.2 million back from Willis' office.This is a solid win for Trump in his long-running clash with Willis, whom he has repeatedly blasted as a "rabid partisan" running a "witch hunt."
The defendants, charged by Willis with scheming to illegally flip Georgia's 2020 election results, are leaning on that new law to get their money back after the case imploded.
Fulton County could still be on the hook since the cash would come from the county budget, but Willis' team insisted she deserved a seat at the table.
"Without intervention by the District Attorney, any award would violate basic fundamental notions of due process by denying her an opportunity to be heard or even challenge the reasonableness of the claimed attorney fees before it is taken from her budget," her lawyers argued in court filings.
Trump's lead attorney, Steve Sadow, wasted no time calling the ruling spot-on.
"Judge McAfee has properly denied DA Willis' motion to intervene in POTUS' action for reimbursement of attorney fees because her disqualification for improper conduct bars Willis and her office from any further participation in this dismissed, lawfare case," Sadow said in a statement.
Willis launched her massive RICO indictment against Trump and 18 co-defendants back in August 2023, claiming they conspired to mess with the 2020 election. But the case steadily unraveled, plea deals, dropped charges, and suffered its fatal blow in 2024 when the Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Willis over her secret relationship with Wade, creating an obvious conflict of interest.
That kicked the case over to the Georgia Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, whose director, Peter Skandalakis, moved to dismiss everything.
"In my professional judgment, the citizens of Georgia are not served by pursuing this case in full for another five to ten years," Skandalakis said.
McAfee signed off on the dismissal, and with this latest order, Willis is officially sidelined from the cleanup fight too. Another chapter closes on one of the most politicized prosecutions in recent memory.
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